Scale dependence and channel switching in letter identification

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Oruç, Ipek ^a,c   Landy, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Vancouver General Hospital Eye Care Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channel switching; Critical band masking; Equivalent input noise; Ideal observer; Letter channels; Letter identification; Scale invariance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTIFACTS; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 69449102511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.9.4     Document Type: Article

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